Example sentences of "has [adv] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 2 | He has remarkably little choice of action or initiative if he is going to comply with the flight manual and his company 's operations manual and at the same time carry out an economic flight . |
| 3 | Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved . |
| 4 | ‘ He has so little faith in his own policies ’ |
| 5 | I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways . |
| 6 | And these days one has so little rehearsal time to get any kind of perfection . |
| 7 | In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable . |
| 8 | If it has so little status , why bother understanding it , one might ask ! |
| 9 | You see , William , that Matilda has precious little support in Normandy or in England . |
| 10 | He will find that in both Bath and Lancashire the electorate has as little faith in Labour 's policies as he has . |
| 11 | What is more , because this youthful community has little contact with the older generation it has increasingly little reason to see why it should defer to the older generation 's judgement . |
| 12 | This will usually be someone who has relatively little experience as an account executive ( but may well have been in the agency for some time , as a progress controller or planner , for example ) . |
| 13 | Professor William Miller of Glasgow University , author of a number of studies of voters ' behaviour at elections , believes formal advertising has relatively little effect on how people vote . |
| 14 | For example , a junior manager might find the organisation so large that he has relatively little influence . |
| 15 | Antarctica has relatively little standing water . |
| 16 | He has relatively little ambition and wants security above all . |
| 17 | This is bound to have competitive implications for the UK banking sector , which is already heavily rationalized and has therefore little scope for gaining further economies of scale . |
| 18 | A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic ; whereas an overfed horse which has too little exercise , especially if it is fed grain , is likely to be over-excited and silly . |
| 19 | The only exception has been the rear access door that covers the Parallel and Serial Ports , which has too little clearance between it and any modern parallel printer plug . |
| 20 | He argues that cricket has too little regard for these moments , and wishes baseball 's practice of measuring and recording big hits was adopted . |
| 21 | So perhaps you feel that while all this talk about kinship and affinity may make good sense in discussions of the social life of Australian Aborigines or of Trobriand Islanders in Melanesia , it really has very little relevance for ourselves who live in a social context in which , as a general rule , affinity is of little significance and the majority of social relationships outside the domestic family are coded in quite a different way . |
| 22 | If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant had the intention , he has very little opportunity to exculpate himself on the grounds that he lacked mens rea , as will be explained further presently . |
| 23 | The right hon. Member , who opposes everything so vehemently , has very little credibility left on this subject . |
| 24 | A £1,000 computer , several orders of magnitude more powerful than machines which cost £3,000 even five years ago , has very little profit built in for the supplier . |
| 25 | The traditional novel writers like Jane Austen are essentially objective and descriptive , Jane Austen for example describes events and people in a basic narrative style , she has very little involvement with any kind of thought life ; the actions made dictate the novel almost completely . |
| 26 | I 'm someone who has very little concern with any kind of social problems , someone who 's very much concerned with their own particular plight . |
| 27 | Similarly the arctic desert , with or without ice sheets , has very little water available during the short summers , and none in winters . |
| 28 | This acts to surprise the liver into activity , for it has very little work to do when you are on a pure diet . |
| 29 | erm Yet the distinction is one on which Proust repeatedly insists , at least for critical purposes , and elsewhere I think he puts the same idea quite succinctly , when he says and I quote , ‘ The man who inhabits the same body as a great genius has very little contact with him . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She 's badly run down anyway — like most of us since the war — and has very little resistance . ’ |